A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.